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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
So many studies have been done on RBs that its almost boring to talk about it anymore because the book is damn near closed.
90% of RBs are a product of their blocking. In any given year there are 2-3 guys who might give you more than you block up for them over any large enough sample size.
But most of them give you roughly what you block. And surprisingly, MORE things have to go right in blocking up a run play than a pass play. The correlation between a single blocker failing in his assignment and the play then failing is substantially higher for a run play than it is for a pass play.
Bottom line is that the league, under these rules, is simply a really damn tough place to make your bones running the football. You need 5 guys on the line who are all competent run blockers and, more critically, consistent. An erratic run blocker (Donovan Smith and Jawaan Taylor are good examples) are as big a problem in your run game than they are your passing game, if not moreso.
And we emphasize pass pro with our OTs.
So the running game here is always gonna be somewhat sketchy because we don't emphasize consistent run blocking in our roster construction.
Just figure out a way to get what's blocked up and improve in short yardage. The rest...well, it probably ain't gonna happen for us. It's just not that important and the juice isn't worth the squeeze when a successful run play is worth 5 yards and a successful pass play is worth 12.
Running is situationally important and that's it. And so it's not worth adjusting a roster around or altering your player personnel philosophy to attack.
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Here’s one of my favorite ways of looking at it.
5+ yards per carry is incredible. But that doesn’t mean it goes: 5, 5, 5, 5,5
It’s more like: 11, 6, 4, 2, 2
Which means, you’re now at 3rd and 6. You have to throw.